Ax-head



(No Model.)

- F. L. HUFFORD.

AX HEAD.

Patented Mar. 25, 1890.

qwivtweoow a 3 a M UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK L. I-IUFFORD, 0F AROATA, CALIFORNIA.

AX-HEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 170.424,.205, dated March25, 1890. Application filed January 16, 1889- Serial No. 296,4?5. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK L. IIUFFORD, a citizen of the United States,residing at Arcata, in the county of Humboldt and State of California,have invented new and useful Improvements in Alt-Heads, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in aX-heads; and it consists in acertain novel construction and combination of devices, fully describedhereinafter in connection with the accompanying drawings, andspecifically pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an aX-head embodyingmy improvements. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A designates the improved head,which belongs to that character of ax ordinarily known as a broad-ax,and is provided with two blades B B, arranged, respectively, on thelaterallyopposite sides of the eye 0, and which blades are provided withcutting-edges b on vertically-opposite sides of the eye. One side of thehead is straight or flat, as shown, in order to enable the tool to makea cut straight on one side, and the opposite side of the head is roundedor beveled from the outer cuttingedges of the blades inward to the eyeto give the proper thickness to the blades 'and provide room enough forthe eye. The ends 6 of the two blades B, comprising the head, are

of any preferred configuration.

The advantage of the improved ax-head is that when one blade is used theflat side is to the left, and when the other blade is used the flat sideis to the right, thereby enabling either a right or left hand man to usethe tool without changing the handle; also, the haudle may be insertedin either end of the eye.

The improved axis designed to be used for dressing timber in thelumbering woods and for hewing square timber for ship-building purposes,&c.

Having thus described the invention, I claim-- The arc-head A, havingthe longitudinal eye 0, with blades B on the opposite sides of said eye,said blades having oppositely-facing cuttingedges approximately parallelwith the length of the eye, one side of said head from edge to edgebeing flat, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK L. IIUFFORD. Witnesses:

JOHN SAFFORD, A. M. MONTGOMERY.

